Images Dated 2019 March

The American 'Great White Fleet' arrives in Australia

The American 'Great White Fleet' arrives in Australia - Uncle Sam meeting a Kangaroo. On 20 August 1908 well over half a million Sydneysiders turned out to watch the arrival of the Fleet. President Roosevelt had initiated the deployment of the US Atlantic Fleet to the Pacific - the first such movement of great battleships - to test his Navys professionalism, arouse popular interest in and enthusiasm for the navy, and demonstrate that the United States had arrived as a world power. Date: 1908

The Treasury, Petra, Jordan

The Treasury, Al Khazneh, Petra, seen through the narrow rock entrance gap of the Petra ravine, or Siq. A horse and rider is silhouetted against the light Date: circa 1995

© Philip Dunn / Mary Evans Picture Library

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RWF 'Willie Poole - shrimping

Fat man with big bum shrimping in rock pools on a beach, Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria, England. This is RWF 'Willy' Poole 1940-2017. Writer, countryman, humourist, master of foxhounds. First published The Daily Telegraph Date: 2000

© Philip Dunn / Mary Evans Picture Library

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